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Spoken like a true socialist...I'd agree that CEO pay is usually crony capitalism, set up/approved by board members that are likely their friends - and needs to be reformed. We do not need to reform the free enterprise system, though. NOBODY deserves taxpayer funded healthcare for life after 10 years of employment - not even a CEO, nor a bus driver or mechanic.

And the union us bashing TriMet for more? What a punch in the gut to taxpayers. Fight back Tri Met!! You are the stewards of taxpayers money! Push for a benefits package more like what people get in the private sector!

"Currently, those benefits not only include $5 co-pays, no deductibles and no premium contributions but lifetime health care up turning 55 after just 10 years on the job, he said."

Am I reading this right?? After 10 years of employment, you get "free" healthcare for life? Where else in the world can rank and file workers get such a plumb deal at taxpayers expense? Talk about a non-sustainable financial model...

You are only partly correct - wolves and coyotes prey heavily upon the newborn. Newborn survival rates in some areas are as low as 30% where wolf populations have increased, which is not a sustainable reproduction rate. It is a fallacy to say that wolves make a population stronger when wolves prey so heavily upon the young causing the population to plummet to unsustainable reproduction rates.

I wonder how many other teachers or administrators are "just showing up" and collecting a fat paycheck, while student needs go ignored and taxpayer money gets flushed down the drain. Like welfare and unemployment under the Obama economic policy, this is considered "economic stimulus".

Because of a misspelled word, you deny the merit of his whole argument. Pretty typical of one who knows the argument is correct, to resort to name calling and personal insults. Try to show some intellect and challenge him on the merit of the argument...

He's right, too. I have not seen a solar project that was not paid for totally by OUR tax dollars (public works jobs) or that were highly subsidized. The same goes for wind power, too. These two sources of power are inefficient and do not have any reasonable payback period.

Isn't it funny, sad, and tragic it how how the multiculturalists are the quickest to resort to name calling when the "anti-immigration" group provides facts/figures/research on how certain groups of immigrant groups are a burden on our society and cannot come up with their own legitimate facts/figures/research to substantiate their side?

Saul Alinsky, the infamous radical, has many tactics that these multiculturists follow. The name calling without providing facts to shore up their position is his "tactic # 5, Ridicule is man's most potent weapon "

Another great post. Thank you!
This article makes a point that it's white racism "keeping these minorities down", when it's in large part the culture of the minority that keeps themselves down. I know that's hard to hear for some folks, but there's truth in that.
By and large, the Latino community does not have a culture to aspire to higher education. Compare them to our Chinese, Vietnamese, or Indian immigrants.
The Latinos that I know went through the 6th grade on average and went to work in Mexico at some jean manufacturing plant or worked in an orchard to support themselves because their parents couldn't/wouldn't.
The Latino culture typically has children at much younger age than other cultures here in the US. This leads to a whole host of other problems (dropping out of school, poor wages, poverty for the parent, poverty for the child as he/she grows up, disproportionate drug problems).

Great post! How about taking personal responsibility for your action(s)?
Coming to the USA illegally and whining about your living conditions - that's a choice.
Unprotected sex at 16 leads to getting pregnant - that's a choice.
Having the child at 16 without an education- that's a choice.
Children of single parent homes in poverty are much more likely to live in poverty- this was your choice!
You are here for more than two years and cannot put a coherent sentence together in English - that's your CHOICE to not assimilate to our culture. If you do not want to learn the language of the country that you are (illegally?) in, then GO HOME!!

My CHOICE it to yell loud and clear that I don't like paying a dime of extra taxes to support these people that make bad choices and want to cry about it.

This article tries to blame Caucasians for the ills of minorities that largely make poor decisions for themselves. I'm tired of it. And the Caucasians that buy into this mindset are self loathing and and are complicit in the problem.